Style software critiques your fashion choices

摘要

Now even computers are going to be critical of how we look: algorithms are getting into style. New software judges outfits from a photograph and offers tips to make them look even more chic. "Not everyone has access to an expert," says Raquel Urtasun, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, Canada, who developed the software with colleagues in Spain. "You can imagine something like this being used [to style photos for] dating sites and Facebook profiles." Fashion is as tough for machines to master as it is for us, if not more so, largely because it is so subjective. What's popular now may become passe in a few months, and what works well in a particular culture or setting could be wildly inappropriate in another: think about clothes for date nights and clothes for the office. And before a computer works any of this out, it has to be able to correctly identify each item of clothing being worn.